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Photos by Stacy Van Buskirk/ svanbuskirk@cherokeescout.com Marlee Postell (left) and her mother, Angie Holland, hold paintings done by three generations of women in their family. The landscape Marlee is holding is her great-grandmother’s Dot Pullium, Angie is holding a portrait by her mother, Diane Mintz, and Angie’s landscape lays in front of them.

Photos by Stacy Van Buskirk/ svanbuskirk@cherokeescout.com Marlee Postell (left) and her mother, Angie Holland, hold paintings done by three generations of women in their family. The landscape Marlee is holding is her great-grandmother’s Dot Pullium, Angie is holding a portrait by her mother, Diane Mintz, and Angie’s landscape lays in front of them.

Art in their blood

Stacy Van Buskirk
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Body When someone says, “It’s in my blood,” they normally mean that something is a part of their essential nature. However for one local family, art really does span generations.
Volunteers like Art St. John and Michael Castaing help unload the MANNA Food Truck at the Hiwassee Dam Senior Center. The center hosts MANNA on the fourth Wednesday of every month to help the community.

Volunteers like Art St. John and Michael Castaing help unload the MANNA Food Truck at the Hiwassee Dam Senior Center. The center hosts MANNA on the fourth Wednesday of every month to help the community.

Walking to help MANNA feed more folks

Stacy Van Buskirk
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Body Hiwassee Dam – COVID-19 brought with it uncertain times for many people living in western North Carolina.
Authorities say a local man started a series of fires in western Cherokee County following a dispute with a relative.

Authorities say a local man started a series of fires in western Cherokee County following a dispute with a relative.

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Police search for serial arsonist

Penny Ray
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Body Wolf Creek – Authorities are searching for a man accused of serial arson. 
Ray Barrios was 29 years old in 1987, when he was traveling on a ship through the Mediterranean while he was serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Ray Barrios was 29 years old in 1987, when he was traveling on a ship through the Mediterranean while he was serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Story of freedom

Stacy Van Buskirk
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Body Andrews – In 1987, Raymond Barrios was on a six-month deportment to the small port town of Marseille, France, when he was forever touched by the townspeople’s gratitude to the Amer

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School site gets go-ahead

Charlie Benton
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Body Peachtree – Cherokee County Schools has received word that no additional permits will be required on the site of its new School of Innovation & Technology, along U.S.
Charlie Benton/cbenton@cherokeescout.com Several agencies responded to an accident involving at least two vehicles, including a N.C. Highway Patrol cruiser, on Thursday in the eastbound lane of U.S. 64/74 at the intersection with of U.S. 19/129 – Blairsville Highway – in Ranger. The accident slowed traffic for close to an hour.

Charlie Benton/cbenton@cherokeescout.com Several agencies responded to an accident involving at least two vehicles, including a N.C. Highway Patrol cruiser, on Thursday in the eastbound lane of U.S. 64/74 at the intersection with of U.S. 19/129 – Blairsville Highway – in Ranger. The accident slowed traffic for close to an hour.

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Law & Order

News Staff
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Body BRYSON CITY Woman gets 21-year term